At 11:35 AM 12/20/99 +1100, you wrote:
>Dear Bill
>Yes I had exactly the same problem. What has happened is that some kind soul
>somewhere, sometime has dropped the large threaded rod that holds the
>compass to the wedge and thru the spreader bar. I replaced mine and the
>problem went away. You could try to demagnetise your by heating and then
>cooling or by randomly banging the end with a hammer while waving it all
>over the place. If that doesnt work it could at least appease the rain and
>cloud gods to bugger off for a while.
>Regards, Allan

If TV shops still have degaussing coils (large coils used to de-magnetize
the shadow mask in a color CRT), try taking the tripod to a TV shop and ask
to borrow their degaussing coil. Pass it all over the tripod and if it's
big enough, pass it over the tripod head. Do all this slowly, and make
sure the coil is far away when you turn it off. And of course, make sure
the compass is removed for this procedure!


Paul Goelz
Rochester Hills, MI
pgoelz at eaglequest dot com
Videoastronomy and music web site:
http://www.eaglequest.com/~pgoelz

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